Is and communities need to know what that is, soy hope that we urge that plan to be public as soon as possible so we all know what to expect. Thank you. Thank you, senator murray. Senator burr. Thank you, mr. Chairman. After working on pandemic policy now for 17 years, im reminded this morning tony fauci has been doing it twice as long as i have and most of you at the dais have been doing that as well. I urge my colleagues to Pay Attention to what each of these individuals say because some things are predictable up here. Congress is a fullfledged partner and funds things when theres an urgent need, a threat thats out there, and and i know, tony, youve seen over the years when theres not that threat out there things get shellofed like platforms that we could have developed and had better countermeasures today, platforms that then could address vaccines at a much faster pace than maybe what were doing but we spend more time with the blame game than we do with focuses on how the future sh
How do we address gaps, improve our effort. I want to leave you with is this. There are a lot of continued challenges to ensuring our Nations Health security. Is 87 in ninesay we are always dealing with another pandemic. I always remind people fear is not a Public Health strategy. I think knowledge is a Public Health strategy. Modernized versions of microbiology keeps it possible. Terrorists are always rethinking their strategies, and we need to always be ready. Then climate disruption and what that could mean for the united states. Thank you, dr. Khan. A comprehensive and useful picture of what is going on. To thegoing to turn director of Emergency Preparedness for louisiana Public Health. The center ofat coordinating agencies that are disasters of various types. She has a background in health administration. During theund katrina days, and she has been with the department for over 20 years. We are pleased to have you with us today. Can you hear me . Good afternoon. I i was one of the
Ways cant come soon enough, wolf. We have been talking about that for some time. And why do they believe it is going to spread more rapidly than influenza . Well, it is, you know, it seems to be pretty contagious. They are starting to do the modeling and looking at how likely the virus has been in the area, and how many people are infected as a result, and as a result, how contagious it is. And typically, you are thinking of the flu as going from one person to maybe one or two people, and with coronavirus, it is going from one person to two or three people. Itarly on and they have to do more modeling, but you could have more patients with this coronavirus than influenza within a few weeks. What are you going to be linsing for in this news conferen conference . Well, keeping in mind what to expect with the numbers increasing and we expect they will as we will see with the new testing coming in, and are we ready is the question. There is modeling coming from the federal government, itsel
We are all out of time here on weekends with alex. Im going to hand it off to Joshua Johnson kwhoz going to pick it up. I am Joshua Johnson, glad to be with you from headquarters in new york. Coronavirus is top of mind, with the first confirmed death in the u. S. Its spreading. Weve just learned about two more cases. The white house is painting a different picture. Well explore what you need to know and how to guard against coronavirus. Also the countdown is on to super tuesday, 14 states have more than 1300 delegates to award. Will joe biden capital looirz on his big win in South Carolina, or will Bernie Sanders pull farther ahead . Well analyze and get the clafts. Later, we mark 55 years after a historic day in selma. Thousands are gathered for a samenial march across the Edmund Pettus bridge in alabama. We will take you there live. Let us begin with breaking news on coronavirus. Two new cases in Washington State, adding to cases reported today in illinois and rhode island. That make
A very warm welcome to all of you watching us in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world with more than 2. 9 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in 185 countries. The total number of people known to have died worldwide is now more than 206,000 according to figures collated byjohns Hopkins University in the United States. The us has suffered more than a quarter of those total deaths 54,000. Here in the uk, 413 deaths in hospital were announced on sunday. Thats a decrease on the few days before, although delays in reporting over the weekend may be understating the true number. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, who was hospitalised with coronavirus three weeks ago, is expected to return to work later on monday. Several European Countries are continuing to take steps to ease lockdown restrictions, including those countries which have been hardest hit by th